Welcome to How to Decorate from Ballard Designs, a podcast all about the trials and triumphs of decorating and redecorating your home.

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I'm Caroline, and I'm on the marketing team.

And I'm Taryn and I'm a product designer.

And I'm Liz.

I head up the Ballard creative team.

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All right, so we're back for another episode of Trials and Triumphs.

I think this is going to be a holiday edition, probably.

But before we get started, if you want to listen to the podcast on YouTube,

then you'll also be able to watch because we're going to have the whole episode with video

and adding in photos of what we're going to have the whole episode with video and adding in photos of

what we're talking about into the YouTube video. So if you want to do that, go check out

YouTube.com slash Ballard Designs and you can watch the whole video there. But obviously,

if you're here listening on the podcast, we're happy for you to be here. And you can always check out some photos on Instagram. They'll live there too. But I think,

Taryn, how about you start? Okay. So it's definitely been a lot of holiday-ask. But my first thing,

that was kind of a trial that I know I've spoken to you guys about before is we have a White House and we did construction over a year ago. And the amount of clay

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